da-da da, yes-ter-day, sud-den-ly, fun-il-ly, mer-il-ly and Yes-ter-day, that's good. I remember mulling over the tune 'Yesterday', and suddenly getting these little one-word openings to the verse. McCartney said the breakthrough with the lyrics came during a trip to Portugal in May 1965: I was sorry in a way, we'd had so many laughs about it. Then one morning Paul woke up and the song and the title were both there, completed. We made up our minds that only a one-word title would suit, we just couldn't find the right one. We called it 'Scrambled Eggs' and it became a joke between us. Paul wrote nearly all of it, but we just couldn't find the right title. Every time we got together to write songs for a recording session, this one would come up. The song was around for months and months before we finally completed it. Lennon later indicated that the song had been around for a while before: Although McCartney has never elaborated on his claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney and George Martin regarding the song's arrangement, or the opinion of the other Beatles who felt it did not suit their image. During the intervening time, the Beatles released two albums, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale, each of which could have included "Yesterday". McCartney originally claimed he had written "Yesterday" during the Beatles' tour of France in 1964 however, the song was not released until the summer of 1965. You'd think he was Beethoven or somebody!" The patience of the other Beatles was also tested by McCartney's work in progress George Harrison summed this up when he said: "Blimey, he's always talking about that song. Richard Lester, the director, was eventually greatly annoyed by this and lost his temper, telling McCartney to finish writing the song or he would have the piano removed. ĭuring the shooting of Help!, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney took advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song. As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled "Scrambled Eggs" (the working opening verse was "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written. Upon being convinced that he had not copied the melody, McCartney began writing lyrics to suit it. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it." Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. Initially concerned though if he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work, as he put it: "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it. The Beatles recording was issued as a single there in 1976 and peaked at number 8.Īccording to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. The final recording was so different from other works by the Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom, although other artists were quick to record versions of it for single release. McCartney is the only member of the Beatles to appear on the track. The singer nostalgically laments for yesterday when he and his love were together, before she left because of something he said. "Yesterday" is a melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year. "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. It remains popular today and, with more than 2,200 cover versions, is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar, together with a string quartet, essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. It subsequently appeared on the UK EP Yesterday in March 1966 and made its US album debut on Yesterday and Today, in June 1966. The song reached number one on the US charts.
It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a single in September. " Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
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